THE D-H CHRONICLES: THE COASTER

ok..so this is part one of the D-H TRILOGY..hehehe!

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• two to three weeks before the november 2008 board exams, we started to plan out things needed for the preparation. Manong Don and I sort of spearheaded the team composed of only the two of us. (duh! what team?!) We spent hours over the weeks planning and only planning..hahaha! Aahh..Potential energy at its best! before we knew it, we only got one week left, 550 pesos and only the two of us, still. (haha!)

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• ok..so we got them scapulars as gift from the june takers..i also asked daphne for a video message and i made a letter for them, edited by nong don(added the last line) and marian (spelling and grammar).hahaha! and i thought they would edit the content! grr..nevertheless, we had the two..now what? "we really don't know"..it has been days that the question (and the answer) remained the same. "what shall we do with these? when will we have it blessed? when will we give this to them? what part of the program?" hehehe..the answer? "i really don't know." we just went with the flow and at long last, we found some slots in the mass and program wherein we can insert our so called gifts. and to think that we planned for nothing since the original plan to give it together in the tribute was not followed at all! harhar.. oh well, it's because the mass on the first day was canceled and we haven't had the scapulars blessed so we can't give it on the tribute scheduled the next day...huhu..

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• anyway, since the mass was canceled, we had nothing to do. i went up to the room of the royalty girls to rest and have some chika. came lunch time, nong don and company invited me to go with them at allan's to have talabas. lucky me, i was feeling lazy that time so i did not go. boy! how lucky can one get..hahaha! they went back with sick stomachs! haha..amalia can't contain it..hehe..nong don may have a late reaction but still.. you can't ignore the toilet..hahaha! peace! that afternoon, we asked permission if we can sleep there that tuesday since the tribute program will be ending late and that we can help sir vargas with the preparations. we also had some chika with sir vargas..funny moments..tsk tsk! not to mention ms timay has one too..but she just told us she has one then she took her bag then got off to start her session with the reviewees. it left us with open mouths..hehe! until now, "we really don't know" what that chika is.

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• the following day was the tribute program for the november takers. with nong don's sick stomach, i went to pick up the decors at the PNSO office at school. "may ginto sa dulo ng bahaghari" sh*t! buki buki!!! people will surely laugh at that if that will be the title of the program and the theme is "dyosa". i asked them if they have newspapers and long extension cords. the answer was none. GGRRR! they also told me that instead of tealights, they bought the long white candle type. they plan to make paper lanterns with tealights inside brown paperbags. and since they brought the wrong candles, they plan to stick it upright in the ground...WHAT?!? STUPID..Grr to the max!!!! by this time, we are quite furious with them. they can't give us their definite plans..and they sort of get in the way..hehe..and also by this time, our team is still composed of two..hehe!

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• and so i went to school to meet him there and to get the fireworks. lucky us, shirley and tonet was able to join. yipee! 4 na kami..hehe..we went to holy rosary to fix the session hall for the tribute. i felt sick to my stomach in thinking of what to do with the cheapy decors. i just followed my gut and made it look presentable. (eew) and to think we covered the windows and doors with newspapers for them not to see the decors! what's there to see anyway?!

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• early that night, the pnso came in already.. so we went out to eat dinner since no fastfood in town delivers past 6! grr...what irritated us is the fact that there are a lot of them but most of them just roamed around the room with nothing to do. tirik lang nga tirik..and they are in this unbelievable high level of stress for just a simple, simple event which in most parts, we already took care of. as the event started, i went out to check the set up outside. i noticed that there is no stereo there. so i asked them if they have one out already..guess what? no one bothered to place one outside!!! *@!#*....! hay naku...nevertheless, the program went well..the speeches were funny..ms timay, ross, jeff, virgil, powie, nong don, sir pendon and sir albances..and of course, and nag-iisang dyosa..reyven! who by the way, cannot be contacted for a live phone patch and we played the recorded version in behalf.

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• i enjoyed the program. i joined the november takers up the grotto during the closing prayer. and when we sang our batch song, i can't help but think of the june takers who is just down behind me. i wanna hug both worlds! i am in between groups who matter to me and who journeyed with me towards what i am now. this made me teary eyed. but at the end, our efforts are still worth it. one down for the team!

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• after the fireworks, we all hugged each other and said our good lucks. nong don n i went to chowking to grab some food after dropping nang ping2 and maan home and also evil ian at his drop off point. we also saw the pnso there at chowking..they are still meeting for the nurses week at 11 in the evening. another, what?! we went back at holy rosary and "with tired minds, tired souls, we slept"..hehe..(another OTH episode title)..

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• the following morning, i discovered that my super long extension cord was gone. nong don's scissors was also nowhere in sight. the maintenance personnel said that he saw the pnso keeping them. darn! and until now, they are not allegedly with them..is this karma or what?!

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• we went home that morning since we have nothing to do there. i ached because of two things: my body is tired for all the hullaballos and anxiety auras from the reviewees and most of all, i can't get to watch Twilight on the first day!!! and so i rested the whole afternoon, and when i logged on the internet, it's timely that i received a txt from nong don. they watched twilight and that he fell asleep! hahaha! at that time, i was thinking to rush and watch the movie but im still a bit tired and dumbfounded so i just stayed logged on and answered inquiries from my online shop.

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• later that afternoon, i caught up with nang kim in YM and we chatted about our usual stuffs. then nong don and i came up with a decision to sleep there again that night until it is all over. so off we go..people got surprised that we are there, again..hehe! by this time, the teasing started, little did they know...its the d-h chronicles! (ahem! shh..)

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• the next day, they had their mass intention. in the afternoon, nong don & i went to do some errands for the board exam. we planned to buy DRINKS, cups, candies and garbage bags and also to order their snacks at jollibee. we decided to buy 72 bottles of softrinks for 3 meals, 99 stomachs.. don't ask us how the hell did we compute this number! "we really don't know!" 2 brown heads and 1 "red" head.. dumb, dumber and dumberer..hihihi! as we divided the bottles according to the number of students per venue (which as stupid as we are, we did this on the next day), we noticed that we are short of drinks..super short! (pls don't ask why..u know the answer)..and so, we found ourselves the next day in makro buying additional drinks as we rush to the different venues.

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• so came the next day..November 29; first day of the board exams.

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• i woke up feeling nostalgic. i remember our time when we took the boards; from the red underwear to the CHN uniforms and the prayer. i was also in my red underwear that day..hehe!

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• we plotted our "iterinary" the night before as we have a lot of stop overs to go. after the prayer (which i cried in), nong don and i hurried to see the coaster! turns out its just a tourist bus. haha! we are so manol!! we took a picture with franz and pearl at the coaster..but its just not us who doesn't know what a coaster is.. we tried to ask everybody what a coaster is just to prove to sir vargas that we are not the only coaster manols in town..hahaha!

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• we haven't reached noon yet but our heads are already aching and/or spinning! we went to molo city high then to makro then drop the drinks at the venues then to dunkin iznart..whew! that was just around 10 in the morning and we are already in "grr mode"..hehe! not to mention, our volunteers are bugging us! nevertheless, we still went on with our jobs, picking up the foods then dropping them to the venues.

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• we had lunch at jollibee together with nang kim and nang debbie, our "team" for the day..hehe! we stayed there to cool off and chatted until we got a call from sir. he was ready to pick up the jolly hotdogs we ordered the other day. it took us around 15-20 minutes to wait for the transaction of our order and it ended up being changed. why? i really dont know..hehe..no, no...this time i know..haha! they weren't able to fix 110 jolly hotdogs. they only have 3..so sir vargas went @#!..hihihi...we all went nuts, i mean!red nuts..hahaha! (ok i'm talking crap for those who don't know what "red" is)..the end thing? we changed the jolly hotdogs to cheeseburgers then the van took it to holy rosary since we had no time left. they took their snacks there. we went grocery shopping for drinks again..

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• we arrived there "with tired minds, tired souls, we slept" at the sofa..hehe! we didn't care if people are so noisy discussing board exam questions and teasing us there. were tired! not long after, i got up..and not long after, nong don got up because i did and the sofa moved..hehe.peace!!

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• that night, we ate our dinner. after eating, we chatted a bit on the table and i wondered why manong passed his phone to me. hay! he saw something red! hahahaha! i cannot stop smiling until now..hehe! that night, we did not join the night prayer to do some inventories of our supplies. and when i went up to get something, i was still smiling because of the "red", and while i was getting up the stairs, i saw the "red"..hahahaha! i just bit my lip, stepped aside and ran! hehehe!

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• the stepping and running reminded me of one D-H thingy...the other day, nong don went up with me to the rooms since it was bell time..so we went up then he started singing..ting aling..aling ding dong..tingaling aling aling ding dong..then i joined him...tingaling ngaling...tingaling ngaling...after which, we bursted into banging laughter..hahaha! little did we know, a nun was at the prayer room beside the stairs! hahaha! so we just zipped our loud mouths, stepped aside and RAN! haha...

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• going back , we finished the inventory fast so that we can watch the beautician and the beast. while the girls are reviewing or sleeping, we are all watching the film..hehe..then we snoozed!

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• and oh, my cell phone had gone tired ahead of me the whole day! haha..i had only one bar left of my battery after lunch but it was still alive until late night..hehe! how i wish i had that energy! darn, non-living things! hehe..

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November 30, last day of our contract:

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• we went with our usual routine..but this day, i got up the coaster to see how it is inside and took a picture there..hehehe! (ble! nong don! ble!)

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• We thought this day would be lighter since the exams will only take half of the day..we went to molo city high first to see if the volunteers are there. (why can't they be like the volunteers in national high school? no problem at all!) then we took a short nap and went to makro AGAIN! we bought water and candies...after that, we visited national HS, prayed the rosary there and went to UI..took a rest then zoomed to shakey's.

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• darn shakeys! it took us a long time to wait for the orders of "special diet for special people". 30 minutes for 3 special diet for 3 special people with 3 special needs on 3 different venues! wahaha! darn rest! hehe..this is the start of systems bug down! hehe..

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• as we got the orders, we rushed to the different venues then dropped the special diet. we went back to st maria kinder hall to eat lunch. we ate our dessert first..hehe! yummy chocolate cake. nong don & i used the chopsticks to eat the cake when in fact its supposed to be used as slicer..oh well! we really don't know!

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• as we ate lunch, sir vargas called..hehehe..he told us not to come to sm city anymore since we are still having our lunch..hehe..so we just stayed there and rested until the examinees were done..

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• when the day was over, we just said that we can't attend their dinner party anymore since were already tired and our contract ends at 1 pm with extension until all is settled and in the vans which would take then to their dinner party..

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little did they know some of them are in for a roller "coaster" ride...hehehe

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stay tuned for the next part: THE D-H CHRONICLES: THE PRANK ->(click link)